Mikey, I know you don’t like the truth, but there’s little I can do about that. You prattle on as though everything was rosy under Labour, but it wasn’t and this is nothing new. Our own doctors and nurses, trained by the NHS, have for years been opting to work in the NHS via agencies because it pays more - and that, of course, costs the NHS more. My sister in law is one of them. Furthermore, it was a Labour government that encouraged PFI and introduced monetary fines for hospitals that failed to meet impossible targets implemented by people who know nothing about hospitals, nothing about health care, and certainly nothing about business. The imposition of fines upon hospitals already struggling to pay the debt that Labour encouraged them to take was the most ridiculous decision ever made, and so we end up with hospitals fiddling figures in order to avoid fines that exacerbate an ever-increasing debt that they can’t afford to repay. This is the stupidity of a system that this government inherited where administrative staff outnumber medical personnel and where doctors are obliged to dance to the tune of clerks. The only way to remedy that is to wipe the slate clean, bail out the hospitals, stop PFI, get rid of over-administration, get rid of government interference, bring in people who actually know how business works, and allow those who know what they’re doing to get on and do the job. The money is there. The NHS needs to take a leaf out of the book of private hospitals that don’t rely upon borrowing to survive. It’s an enormous task that can’t and won’t be completed in a matter of months. The rot set in years ago.